South West Africa / Ruth First
1963, 1st Edition. Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Item #354934
Physical description: 269 pages: maps; 19 cm. Contents: Introduction: the bare bones of conflict -- Part one: The antagonists. The servants; The masters -- Part two: The heavy hand of history. Explorers and elephant hunters, missionaries and traders; The old colonialism under Germany -- Part three: The lean years of the mandate. White Man's war; Sacred trust; Punitive expeditions; Land rush; The tribes retreat -- Part four: The score -- in black and white. The wrong side of the line; The dignity of labour; "You are a black spot"; Wealth accumulates, but men decay -- Part five: The world as referee. The League of Nations: on the Geneva carpet; The United Nations: retreat from the twentieth century; Points of law; How the people organized; Sharpeville and the sixties -- Part six: Next round? Appendixes: What is protection?; Table of land ownership; Table of white settlement; Foreign investment in South West Africa; Education in South West Africa. Subjects: Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous peoples Namibia. South-West Africa Native races. South Africa Politics and government 1948. Namibia History 20th century. Namibia History 1946-1990.
Price: €9.95